Stunned Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr said the German airline company is coming to terms with the fact that a Germanwings pilot apparently intentionally crashed an Airbus A320 into the French Alps on March 24.

A French prosecutor said information from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) indicates the co-pilot “through a voluntary act” descended the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.

French air accident investigation agency BEA has been able to extract an audio file from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), but is still searching for the flight data recorder (FDR) and has not reached any conclusions about why the Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps on March 24.

A helicopter team has recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday.

The Russian government has approved a bill to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) from 18% to 10% for airlines operating domestic flights.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved an April 22 election date for the more than 3,000 workers at Boeing’s 787 production facility in South Carolina to vote on unionization, according to a statement by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker told Congress that US airlines favor moving US air traffic control (ATC) to “a commercialized, non-profit type governance structure.”

French investigators reached the scene of the Germanwings Airbus A320 accident late in the afternoon local time and have recovered one of the aircraft’s two recorders, although whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder was not announced.